“Restoration and resilience” report launch drinks reception || 4 December from 18.30 || with South East Councils & South East Employers
Report launch and Christmas drinks reception 2024
Forthcoming event
“Restoration and Resilience”:
Creating Capacity and Capability to Deliver Local Services in the South East
Report launch and evening reception:
Wednesday 4th December 2024 – from 6.30 p.m.
The Council Room, One Great George Street, London, SW1P 3AA
We are hosting our end of year drinks reception in collaboration with South East Employers and South East Councils! It will mark mark the launch of a new report looking at the future of local government in the South East. The report entitled Restoration and resilience | creating capacity and capability to deliver local services in the South East’ builds on our previous work which highlighted the pressing need for local leadership to come together to decide upon their preferred structure of local government.
Our new research study seeks to
- answer questions about where the local government workforce of the future will come from, how they will be trained and how they will be retained – the context of severe capacity and capability gaps which are currently exacerbated by additional pressures from central government;
- stress the importance of local recruitment, retention and innovative management of public service employees as a key constituency issue for the 2024 intake of MPs.
- identify the primary obstacles to local authorities fulfilling their core obligations to communities and points to best practice in overcoming them and enabling high quality delivery for empowered communities
- illuminate the need for ensuring financial resilience and capacity resourcing across the South East for public service reform as well as national government growth and prosperity ambitions;
- disrupt and challenge existing assumptions about the relative affluence and strength of the South East’s political economy and focuses on the real challenges of outsize public service demand and labour market pressures which are constraining people and placemaking services;
- build a coherent case for the South East as a key national and regional strategic asset.
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